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Inside the Boom: Enough Already!
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Highlighting original (and tired) coverage of the oil boom.
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Highlighting original (and tired) coverage of the oil boom.
Oil trains are making people all over the country worry about big, deadly explosions. Will North Dakota act to make its oil safer?
North Dakota is considering new rules that would make oil safer to ship by rail.
Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Transportation over the shipment of crude oil in older railroad tank cars. The lawsuit follows a series of arguments, complaints and regulation changes over the past few months regarding safety rules and industry secrecy, which Inside Energy investigated during the summer.
The nation’s pipeline expansion is largely in “gathering lines,” 90 percent of which currently do not fall under federal safety and construction guidelines.
North Dakota could require oil companies to remove flammable liquids from oil before loading it onto trains.
There’s an invisible network connecting every corner of the United States. Without it, cars wouldn’t start and lights wouldn’t turn on. At 2.6 million miles, if it were stretched out, it would reach around the Earth more than a hundred times. Chances are, you’ve never noticed it. The nation’s sprawling pipeline network is buried underground, out of sight and out of mind. But it wasn’t always the case that pipelines crisscrossed the nation, bringing energy where it was needed.
The Department of Transportation has released proposals to tighten safety regulations for crude-oil trains.
Neither party wants to foot the cost of new, more stringent, regulations